Vanity-case partition



W. G. KENDALL.

VANITY CASE PARTITION.

APPLICATION FILED DEC. 1. 1920.

Patented Aug. 8, 1922.

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VANITY-CASE PARTITION.

Application filed December 1, 1920. Serial No. 427,583.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, WILLIAM G. KENDALL, a citizen of the United States, residing at Newark, in the county of Essex and State of New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Vanity-Case Partitions, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in partitions for vanity cases and has as an object to provide a partition which will serve not only to divide the interior of the body of the vanity case into two compartments designed to individually receive compressed powder pads, but will also embody means for supporting a cosmetic stick llOlClBl,"LIlCl it is one of the primary objects of the present invention to so construct the partition that it may be stamped or otherwise formed from a single integral sheet metal blank.

Another object of the invention is to provide the partition with integral members which are so constructed and arranged as to afford ample support for the ends of a cosmetic stick holder which is in this manner supported within the vanity case between the compartments which contain the compressed powder pads.

In the accompanying drawings:

Figure 1 is a top plan view of a vanity case equipped with the partition embodying the invention, the lid of the case being shown swung to open position and the cosmetic stick holder being disposed upon the supporting means of the partition;

Figure 2 is a vertical longitudinal sectional view on the line 2-2 of Figure 1;

Figure 3 is a perspective view of the partition removed from the vanity case;

Figure 4 is a detail vertical transverse sectional view through one end of the partition.

In the drawings the body of the vanity case is indicated in general by the numeral 1, and there is hinged thereto the usual lid 2. The interior of the body 1 is to be divided by the partition embodying the present invention into two compartments 3 within which may be individually arranged compressed powder pads of any type whatsoever indicated by the numeral 4, the partition referred to serving to separate the said pads.

The partition member embodying the invention is clearly illustrated in Figure 3 of the drawings in perspective and the same is indicated in general by the numeral 5.

'lhis partition member is formed from a single integral-sheet metal blank initially of rectangular form and which blank is folded at a point midway between two opposite edges, as indicated by the numeral 6,'so as to provide an-upstanding portion 7,.the portions of the blank at the opposite sides of the fold 6 being also folded along parallel lines as at 8 to provide outstanding base portions 9. The base portions 9 of the partition are designed to rest upon the upper side of the bottom of the body of the vanity case, and the partition proper which is indicated by the numeral "7 upstands vertically from the plane of the said base portion. This upstandingportion 7 mayor may not be provided with-means for positively or frictionally engaging the compressed powder pads to be held, but in any event it serves to medially divide the interior of the body of the vanity case, as previously stated, into the compartments 3 in which the compressed powder pads are arranged.

The cosmetic stick holder to be supported is indicated in general in the drawings by the numeral 10 and may be of any desired construction, and in order to support this holder in position within the body of the vanity case and between the compartments ,3, the partition member is provided with supporting means in amanner which will now be explained.

In preparing the blank, the said blank is formed with incisions relatively close to and parallel to its edges other than the two edges above mentioned, so as to form relatively narrow tongue portions, these slits being terminated however with their adjacent ends suitably spaced so that the said tongue portions are left integrally connected with the body of the blank. Then, in forming up the blank, the said tongue portions of which there are two at each of the said edges of the blank, are folded back as at 11 against the outer faces of the two plies which form the upstanding portion 7 of the partition member, and, above the upper edge of the said portion 7 or in other words above the fold 6, these tongues are deflected or curved outwardly and upwardly in opposite direc tions to provide approximately semi-circular rests at the opposite ends of the partition portion 7, these rests being indicated by the numeral 12 and, because of their form, being designed more or less snugly receive the cylindrical contour. It is preferablevthat the terminals of the portions of the tongues which form the rest 12, be overturned in an outward direction as indicated by the numeral 13 so as to permit of the ready introduction into the rest of the ends of the cosmetic stick holder. It will be understood that the outwardly. and upwardly curved portions of the tongue constitute fingers and that, if the metal of which the partition member is formed is resilient,

these; fingers maybe adapted to suitably frictionally grip the endswofthe cosmetic sticlr holder; It will also be evident that therests 12, are, relatively narrow and, do not inany wayinterfere withthe introduction or removal of the, com-pressed powder pads 4: although they serve as a highly eflicient means for supporting the cosmetic stick holder in an elevated position between the compartment 3 and consequently between the compressed powder pads anclin a manner suchthatitmaybe most readily grasped and removed or replaced and when in place will add to the attractive appearance' of the article as a whole.

Having thus described the invention, what is clai'r'ned'as new is:

1. A vanity case partition comprising a base and an upstanding partition portion, the latter of two-ply form, and rests at the ends of the said upstanding partition portion comprising tongue parts folded back against the outer facesof the plies ofsaid portion and above the upper edge of the portion being extended outwardly and upwardly in opposite directions.

2. A. vanity case partition comprising a base and anupstanding partition portion, the latter of two-ply form, and rests at the ends of the said upstanding partition portion comprising tongue parts folded back against the outer faces of the plies of said portion and 'abovev'the upper edge of the portion being extended outwardly and upwardly in opposite directions, the terminals of the said portions being overturned.

In testimony whereof I aii'ix my signature.

WILLIAM GKENDALL. a 8.] 

